Rcpp 0.12.1: First boat load of fixes!

The first updated in the 0.12.* series of Rcpp is now on the CRAN network for GNU R this morning, and I will push a Debian package. This follows the 0.12.0 release from late July which started to some serious new features.

Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing GNU R with C++ code. As of today, 461 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making analyses go faster and further.

This release once again features contributions from a number of new contributors, with Florian Plaza Oñate and Dan Dillon joining the fray with several pull requests each. Kurt Hornik also helped with a fix for a bad interaction between very recent R (3.2.2) changes and Rcpp; another related one was also addressed. A big Thanks! to everybody helping with code, bug reports or documentation, See below for a detailed list of changes extracted from the NEWS file.